Jute Gyte Reveals HIV-Positive Status in Open Letter

July 11, 2025 | MetalNewswire

Avant-garde metal artist Jute Gyte (Adam Kalmbach) has publicly revealed his HIV-positive status in a candid open letter shared via Bandcamp. Known for his dissonant microtonal compositions and fiercely independent ethos, Kalmbach said the diagnosis has reshaped—but not diminished—his creative drive.

“Illness reconfigures the narrative architecture of the self,” he wrote. “There’s a rupture—not just in the body, but in how time unfolds, how meaning coheres... If my work has always been about confronting dissonance, then this is another form of that: an embodied, lived dissonance that demands to be transmuted.”

Kalmbach confirmed his health is stable and that he’s receiving treatment. He also announced a forthcoming album, Phosphene Psalms, written in the wake of the diagnosis.

Fans and fellow musicians—including members of Krallice andthe experimental scene—voiced immediate support, calling the letter a rare act of creative courage.

“I am still here,” Kalmbach concluded. “Still working.”